Loading vmdk in VMware Workstation

[actionmystique]

Environment: Windows 7 64 bits as host - Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits as guest - VirtualBox (VBox) 4.3.2 - VMware Workstation (VW) 10.0

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to load vmdk files generated by VBox into VMware Workstation without any issue as long as I load the "parent" vmdk, the one located in the same folder as .vbox and .vbox-prev files.

What is the most interesting thing to do is to load the last child: I've made several snapshots along the way and I'd like to create a VM inside VW with its last version, without losing the whole chain of snapshots created from the same parent.

Obviously, I cannot load the last vmdk snapshot. There should be a way to create inside Vbox a vmdk incorporating the whole chain of snapshots and parent. How can I do that?

[BillG]

VirtualBox can merge snapshots in its own native format (.vdi). VMWare has the ability it merge snapshots for vmdk. I would copy the complete set to VMWare and merge them there.

http://www.sysprobs.com/merge-snapshots ... kstation-7

[actionmystique]

I tried to copy all the snapshots and the parent vmdk into a single folder and tried to create a VM under VMware Workstation (VW) using the original vmdk as virtual disk, but VW does not see the whole chain of snapshots. Nothing has changed in fact.

[mpack]

Snapshot chains are not intended to be portable between VM platforms. If you use snapshots then don't expect easy management: lack of portability will be the least of your troubles.

In any case, problems with VMWare are best explored on the VMWare forums.